51 stuffed dogs keep watch at castle

According to a Daily Mail story on the world’s largest collection of stuffed dogs:

They can sit and stay – and are excellent at playing dead – but this room full of obedient dogs will never go walkies again. The odd-ball collection of 51 stuffed dogs is the star attraction at the picturesque Castle Bitov in the Czech Republic.

Kan Bider the warden of Bitov Castle holds a dog in the largest collection of stuffed dogs in the world created by the last owner of the castle, Baron George Haas, who committed suicide in 1945 before deportation to Austria. (RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images)

The baron had thousands of animals and around 200 dogs, of which 51 were stuffed after their death and are part of the Guinness world record collection. Other dogs were buried in several cemeteries around the castle, their graves marked with wooden crosses and small metal plates carved with their names. (RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images)

A little moth eaten around the ears but still in good shape. (RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images)